Comments Network will then find the threads associated to that URL and display the comments from those threads into your website. It is normalized to remove the leading https? and trailing / server-side so these are all the same:

When using the default value, the hashtags #fragment and queries ?what=ever will be ignored. If you want to force some of them you just have to specify them through the attribute. So these all resolve different:

Now it defaults to default, which means it is ordered in the same way as the page it comes from. As they actually come from different APIs and sites, they might as well be unordered so you probably want to change it to one of the variants of timestamp so they get sorted chronologically.

Pricing

The project is free to use for everyone. If your blog/page is not so popular, you'll get it for free; however if you get heavy traffic, we'll start showing advertising. The pricing is based on visits:

0-10k visits/month: it is completely free to use.

10k-100k visits/month: 10$/month or a single-line ad will be shown.

100k-1M: 50$/month or two single-line ads will be shown.

You are paying for the API/integration, not for the content of the comments themselves which are owned by their respective owners.

License

This is alpha software; subscribe to get notified when released. Use it at your own risk, though I don't recommend it for production (yet) and please don't send over 1M requests/month as that might collapse the site even though it's heavily cached internally.

The only requeriment so far is that you keep the name+link+logo(if any) of comments.network. I reserve the right to change/modify/remove anything at any point for any reason (within the law). Big changes will be announced through email. It's an alpha right now after all.

This is property of Francisco IO LTD (UK).

Author

Keeping HN quality

The reason the first version will be based on HN is that it's (IMHO) the best source for technical discussions on the internet. As expected, one of the main concerns is that by using Comments Network you are sending random people to join HN and lower the quality. This is a real concern and this is what I'm doing to try to prevent it:

Removed reply: before each comment had a reply button that was really convenient to reply to a particular comment. However, it is true that HN's interface for that was a single textbox without context, so instead now the users have to go to the whole thread to see the context.

Adding more networks. There were some bugs and technical debt so I had to remove Reddit (it never really worked); however I plan on adding it later on to allow for a larger variety of topics.

Inversion of control. Now the URL finds the relevant conversations instead of the developer forcing conversations on a topic.

In the end of the day nothing stops someone with a cooking blog to add a link with "Comments on Hacker News"; this just gives super powers to that person. However if you happen to have other ideas please email me: